Re: $a in @b

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:44:31PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Exactly the sort of chicanery grep/last is meant to avoid.  So the question
> > becomes, how do we crowbar "last" in without altering the returned value in
> > C<map> blocks. I'm for putting it after a comma.  Which matches the syntax of
> > John Porter's proposal about internally converting the block to a subroutine.
> 
> Maybe it's simply time to give up trying to bend existing semantics
> and think of a new flow control keyword?

I think you may be right.

Graham.